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Presents alphabetically arranged entries on stars, galaxies, and constellations, based on observations of the sky at night.

Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues

The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919).

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr walk into the famous Hotel Métropole and sit down at the author’s table to discuss the state of quantum mechanics today.

Kiss My Math meets A Tour of the Calculus. Jennifer Ouellette never took math in college, mostly because she—like most people—assumed that she wouldn’t need it in real life.

When award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich became the unwitting—but doting—foster parent of an adorable gosling named Peep, he was drawn into her world.

An in-depth look at the people and the science behind our attempts to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere with direct air capture.

The birth of Dolly—the world's first clone—placed in our hands the secret of creation.

Physics with a Buffy the Vampire Slayer pop-culture chaser.

With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane. During the Second World War, John Stewart Collis volunteered to leave his comfortable life as an academic to work on the land for the war effort.

An engrossing and eloquent study of the history and ethics of animal experimentation. The heart of a pig may soon beat in a human chest. Sheep, cattle, and mice have been cloned.

Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings

Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his "old-fashioned" father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental bio

The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany. In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought.

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